Irrigated Cornfields as Habitat for Small Mammals in the Sandsage Prairie Region of Western Kansas

Fleharty, Eugene D.; Navo, Kirk W.

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“…The Flint Hills, at the eastern edge of its range, generally has a limited number of suitable sites for hispid pocket mice (McMillan et al 1999). This mouse typically has been associated with short, sparse vegetation and relatively open or sandy soils in arid grasslands (Choate and Fleharty 1975, Bee et al 1981, Fleharty and Navo 1983, Paulsen 1988, Kaufman et al 2000a). The tallgrass prairie at our study site represents a mesic environment and also lacks the sandy soils that this species prefers.…”

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“…Hispid pocket mice often use areas of sandy soils (e.g., sandy grassland sites in north-central Kansas: Kaufman et al 2000a; western and southwestern Kansas: Fleharty 1975, Fleharty andNavo 1983), but they also occur in loamy upland sites and rocky breaks sites (e.g., Blair 1937, Kaufman and Fleharty 1974, Kaufman and Kaufman 1989, 1990, 2000, Kaufman et al 1995, 2000a. These heteromyids also can become locally common in sandy and loamy croplands where much of the soil surface is open and both crop and weed seeds provide abundant food resources (e.g., Fleharty and Navo 1983, Kaufman 1989, 1990).…”

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Hispid Pocket Mice in Tallgrass Prairie: Abundance, Seasonal Activity, Habitat Association, and Individual Attributes

Kaufman

2012

Western North American Naturalist

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Hispid Pocket Mice in Tallgrass Prairie: Abundance, Seasonal Activity, Habitat Association, and Individual Attributes

Kaufman

2012

Western North American Naturalist

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“…We sampled a 10 × 10 trapping grid at the center of each study site with one Sherman live trap located at each of 100 trap stations spaced every 10 m for five consecutive nights, generating 500 trap nights per sampling event on each site. We placed unbaited traps at each station for one night prior to trapping to familiarize the animals with foreign objects in their home range [19]. We baited traps with oatmeal within three hours of sunset and checked them the following morning within four hours of daybreak to minimize heat-related mortality.…”

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Short-Term Fire Effects on Small Mammal Populations and Vegetation of the Northern Chihuahuan Desert

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International Journal of Ecology

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Fire is an important ecological factor in semidesert grass-shrub community dynamics, but there is a lack of designed field experiments documenting effects on vegetation and small mammals. We document effects of June prescribed fire on vegetation and small mammals on 20, 25-ha study areas in the Northern Chihuahuan Desert of Southern New Mexico, USA one month and one year posttreatment. Canopy cover of shrubs and grasses recovered to 68 and 27% of the preburn canopy cover, respectively, after one year. Prescribed burns during June enhanced short-term forb production by reducing competition from grasses and shrubs. Thirty thousand trap-nights yielded 1744 captures of 766 individuals of 15 small mammal species. Burns did not affect small mammal species richness and species diversity. Relative abundance of Merriam's kangaroo rats (Dipodomys merriami) was 91% greater on burned sites than on control sites one year postburn. Silky pocket mouse (Perognathus flavus) relative abundance was 221% greater on burned sites one year postburn. Chihuahuan Desert pocket mice (Chaetodipus eremicus) responded negatively to the fire, with relative abundance 170% greater on control sites (P = .080). Burning produced short-term benefits for two heteromyids, Merriam's kangaroo rats and silky pocket mice.

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“…Remanescentes florestais próximos às áreas de cultivo podem servir de refúgio para pequenos mamíferos, principalmente durante as épocas de manejo dessas áreas (BUSH et al, 1984). Na América do Norte (FLEHARTY; NAVO, 1983;MELLINK, 1991), Argentina (MILLS et al, 1991) e Venezuela (UTRERA et al, 2000), corredores de áreas cultivadas próximas a remanescentes florestais estão sendo abandonados para servir de refúgio para pequenos mamíferos e também para o restabelecimento da floresta nativa. Essas áreas têm apresentado resultados significativos quanto à diversidade e riqueza de espécies, podendo ser facilmente aplicada no Brasil como ação mitigadora dos impactos dessas culturas sob a fauna silvestre, principalmente de pequenos mamíferos.…”

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Distribuição e abundância de pequenos mamíferos em relação à paisagem da bacia do Rio Passa-Cinco, São Paulo, Brasil

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Distribution and abundance of small mammals in relation to the landscape of the Passa-Cinco River basin, São Paulo, Brazil.The Corumbataí Basin is used as the main source of water supply for the municipal districts of Piracicaba and Rio Claro, being the Passa-Cinco River its main tributary. The Passa-Cinco river basin can be considered as a convenient model for the study of the conservation of biodiversity for it contains the main existing agroecosystems in the state of São Paulo. So that conservationist strategies can be established, some information is required, such as how biodiversity is affected, and which strategies the population of wild species use to keep themselves in the altered forest remainings. Small mammals, such as rodends and marsupials can be considered a good group to help answer these questions, for this group develops an important ecological role in forest environments, through the predation and dispersion of seeds. From August 2003 to January 2005 surveys on small mammals were carried out using 160 Sherman type traps distributed in lines, in 16 sample country properties, being 4 in each type of environment that is predominant in the landscape: native forest, Eucalyptus plantation, sugar-cane plantation and pastures. In this period, 177 rodend and marsupial individuals were captured, which were distributed in 8 species, with a 0,77% rate of success in capture. There was significative difference among the studied environments in terms of abundance, but not in terms of the richness of the species. Also, we could observe a clear distinction between forest and non-forest habitats. Apparently, the native forest remainings in the region lost their species which are the most demanding in relation to the quality of habitat, in such a way that the current community is basically formed of generalists, which are a characteristic of degraded areas. The loss of forest species not only alters the community of small mammals, but also favors the occurrence of species from non-forest areas which can bring, among other things, problems related to public health. Eventhough, the small mammal community from the Passa-Cinco river basin is worth conservationist efforts which must give priority to studies relating the environmental law enforcement to the changes this might generate to the community of small mammals.

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Irrigated Cornfields as Habitat for Small Mammals in the Sandsage Prairie Region of Western Kansas

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Hispid Pocket Mice in Tallgrass Prairie: Abundance, Seasonal Activity, Habitat Association, and Individual Attributes

Hispid Pocket Mice in Tallgrass Prairie: Abundance, Seasonal Activity, Habitat Association, and Individual Attributes

Short-Term Fire Effects on Small Mammal Populations and Vegetation of the Northern Chihuahuan Desert

Distribuição e abundância de pequenos mamíferos em relação à paisagem da bacia do Rio Passa-Cinco, São Paulo, Brasil

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